Gold Medal Coach

The Chinese team won the two maps of No 7 Subway Station and Cross Street in a row, taking the lead in grabbing the match point.

For the Extreme Duel mode in the second game, a timeout couldn’t be called. Coach Zhang took advantage of the duration of this game to think a lot. This year’s Chinese team had completely changed. The strength of the players and the tactical layout ability of the coach made everyone look at it with admiration. Singapore had to win three games in a row if they wanted to win against China.

It was hard to chase three after being behind two.

However, the beauty of e-sports was that no one gave up hope until the last moment.

Regardless of whether they won or lost, the Singapore team should play with their own style. Coach Zhang took a deep breath. Calm had returned to his face when he entered the soundproof room. He patted the captain on the shoulder and said in a low voice, “Everyone, put down your psychological pressure and fight. Consider the next match as a practice match where winning or losing doesn’t matter. Just fight with them!”

The players gripped their mouse and took a deep breath to adjust their mentality.

They were really nervous when playing the game just now and their reactions were always a few tenths of a second slower than the Chinese team. The Chinese team had the momentum of a newborn calf not afraid of tigers while their Singapore team played mildly. As veterans who had participated in two Asian Championships, why weren’t they as good as a group of newcomers?

Coach Zhang said, “The third game is our home field. No matter how they play, we just have to play our own way and steal the rhythm back. The commander can be more confident and play fast when seeing who to kill.”

The captain gritted his teeth and said, “That’s right. Fight with them!”

At the beginning of the third game, Singapore chose their home mode: Endless Bloody Battle.

This was already expected by Jiang Shaoyu. Singapore was a fast-paced team and their tactical ideas weren’t rich enough when playing explosion mode and the duel mode.

Once it was Jiang Shaoyu’s turn to ban the map, the subway station that had been used in Endless Bloody Battle mode previously automatically went to the ban. For the rest of the map, Jiang Shaoyu routinely banned the three maps that Singapore was good at: Fountain Square, Deep in the Jungle and Winding Corridor.

Singapore submitted the map for the game: Crystal Cave.

The moment this map appeared, the two commentators in the live broadcast room couldn’t help saying with worry, “This map is difficult for snipers to play, right?”

“Yes, there are stalactites everywhere and so many places to hide that it is difficult for snipers to aim. This map is actually more suitable for a scout’s sneak attacks. Of course, melee players can fight. But for players, the cooperation requirements are very high and the positions of the five people can’t be disordered.”

“If it is a double sniper, it is more difficult to fight in the Crystal Cave. Will Coach Jiang change people?”

Jiang Shaoyu didn’t change it.

In the BO5 game, the coach had two opportunities to change players and Jiang Shaoyu had already used it once. If Shi Xiaobin was replaced in this game, there was no guarantee of winning. Once this game was lost, the Chinese team would run out of opportunities to change players and the fourth game wouldn’t be easy to play. There was no need to use the targeted substitution to gamble on a slight increase in the odds of winning.

Taking everything into consideration, it was more appropriate to let Xiao Gui stay on the field.

Jiang Shaoyu said in a low voice, “The map of Crystal Cave isn’t very friendly to us. Hua Ran, pay attention to the position of your teammates when running. For the others, scatter and fight a guerrilla battle with them.”

At the beginning of the game, the players of the Singapore team obviously went all out and they played very actively this time.

The five of them quickly dispersed in a straight line and approached the Chinese team from different directions in the cave.

Suddenly, gunshots rang out from the left.

Qin Xueyao was the first to spot the scout on the enemy side. She ran quickly but was surrounded by three people from Singapore.

Xueyao fell under the violent strafing of bullets and reported their location before dying. “At 9 o’clock, there are three people!”

Pei Feng said, “Hua Hua.”

Hua Ran quickly ran over with a smoke bomb to interfere with the opposite position, but in this game, the players of Singapore learned their lesson and weren’t disrupted by Hua Ran. They rushed directly through the smoke and killed Hua Ran 3v1!

Fortunately, before Hua Ran died, a wave of firing took away the enemy. 1 for 1 wasn’t a loss.

Pei Feng and Gui Siyang quickly surrounded them to the left and right. Pei Feng seized the opportunity to kill the other party. Gui Siyang followed closely and collected a head on the opposite side. However, the enemy medic was well hidden in this game and saved his teammates. In the end, the Singapore team fought a quick game and won with a head ratio of 4:5.

In the second small game, Qin Xueyao moved more cautiously. She bypassed from the side and took the lead in reporting the position of the enemy sniper.

Pei Feng lurked in the cave, made a big circle and went around the rear of the opponent. He killed the enemy sniper with a headshot. This was followed by Qin Xueyao’s scouting and Hua Ran’s troublemaking. They countered and regained a score.

The two sides fought fiercely in the narrow and dark cave and the score went from 1:1 to 2:2.

Singapore’s captain gritted his teeth. “Scatter them in one wave!”

The five players seemed to exert all their strength and rushed to the Chinese team at the fastest speed, directly exchanging lives for lives. There were deafening gunshots in the cave and players fell one after another. In such a fierce, rapid battle, Pei Feng didn’t even have time to issue orders. The wave of team battle ended with 4 for 5 and Singapore’s scout lived to the end.

—Winner!

Seeing the golden word that rarely appeared on the screen, the five players of the Singapore team burst into tears.

It wasn’t easy!

After playing the last small game, they finally won a difficult game with a score of 3:2.

In the past, it wouldn’t have been so difficult for them to fight China. This season was really strange. Why had the Chinese team become the most difficult bone to gnaw on?

In the soundproof room.

Seeing Jiang Shaoyu enter, Pei Feng took the initiative to say, “It is my fault. My command was wrong.”

In the last wave, the five people of Singapore rushed forward directly like wild horses and Pei Feng died before he could command his teammates.

Jiang Shaoyu didn’t blame him. Under Singapore’s desperate style of play, Pei Feng was able to keep calm and persist until the fifth round, which was already very good. He took a step forward, patted his apprentice lightly on the shoulder and said in a low voice, “Don’t blame yourself if you win or lose a game.”

Pei Feng smiled slightly. He knew that his master wouldn’t criticize him for this.

His master was a very principled person and cared more about the attitude and performance of the players. As long as they kept their attitude and tried their best during the competition, it didn’t matter if they lost. If they lost then they could learn from their experience and continue to improve themselves.

It wasn’t that China was unable to play the map of the Crystal Cave, but their main force to play this map—Ye Qingming wasn’t present.

If Yezi was there, it would be easy to fight along with Pei Feng.

Xueyao still wasn’t very good at this type of encounter map with many obstacles. She was better at large-scale maps with complex terrain and open space.

Jiang Shaoyu said, “Okay, don’t think about this one. Let’s prepare for the fourth game.”

On Singapore’s side, Coach Zhang’s eyes lit up. “Everyone, we have won back one point and got the Crystal Cave map! For the next game, continue to work hard. If we take another map for a score of 2:2 then we have high hopes!”

The five minute break passed quickly and the fourth game was China’s home game.

Jiang Shaoyu submitted the mode: Life and Death Explosion.

Coach Zhang had a bad feeling in his heart when he saw this. He had replayed the match of China against Japan. In the explosion mode, they won two consecutive games with a score of 6:1 and the richness of tactical ideas was jaw-dropping!

In particular, Qin Xueyao stealing the house was impressive.

Coach Zhang immediately banned the large-scale map of Antai Community, followed by Guanghua Middle School which China used to fight against Japan. The third ban position was left to Bewitching Town with more complex terrain.

Jiang Shaoyu submitted the map: Kunlun Bridge.

The explosion points for Kunlun Bridge were above and below the bridge. This map was an overpass in the human world and the structure was similar to a three-dimensional labyrinth. The refresh points for the police and robbers were at both ends of the bridge. Players could walk along the main path or climb up and down various piers.

The Chinese team randomly started as the police and Pei Feng ordered, “Xiao Gui will guard above and I will guard below. Hua Hua, block the intersection. Xueyao, pay attention to the people on the pier. Brother Chen, be with Hua Hua.”

The group immediately dispersed.

The five of them ran quickly to the overpass and reached their designated locations in the blink of an eye.

Such scattered positions looked like a mess but they could take care of each other and cooperate with each other.

The Singapore team was randomly assigned the bandits and they had to hurry to set the bomb and wait for the explosives to explode.

The five people chose to rush in a group.

However, a bullet was fired above their heads the moment they stepped into the overpass.

Bang!

Gui Siyang stood on the top layer of the bridge and stuck out the black gun barrel through the gap in the guardrail. He killed the Singapore charger in seconds with a headshot!

The teammates behind him realized something was wrong and immediately dodged. Immediately after that, a gunshot came from below them.

Bang!

Pei Feng, who was located on the bottom layer of the overpass, squinted his eyes. The muzzle pointed upward and he shot against the light, decisively killing the enemy assaulter in one shot!

The two snipers went up and down, forming an aerial fire protection net. The Singapore team couldn’t get through at all.

Coach Zhang had an extremely ugly expression from where he was sitting in the audience.

He thought to himself that they had hope when he won a game just now!

But immediately afterward, the Chinese team poured cold water on him. There was hope? This was just his delusion!

China’s strongest Life and Death Explosion mode hadn’t taken place yet!

Pei Feng’s command in this explosion mode was very strong. Under his dispatch, the five members of the Chinese team moved, climbed and jumped around the complex structure of the overpass, tightly guarding the two explosion points of A and B.

The Singapore bandits wanted to come over and set the bomb?

No way!

In the live broadcast room, the two commentators who had been worrying about whether the Chinese team would overturn or not looked at each other and sighed with relief.

The commentator Feifei smiled. “I found that our strongest mode seems to be Life and Death Explosion?”

The commentator Xiao Xi added, “For the map of Kunlun Bridge, the police in a regular lineup actually find it very hard to fight. It is because the two explosion points in the lower and upper floors are hard to protect at the same time. However, the Chinese team sent a lineup of two snipers today and formed a very tacit air blockade!”

“Yes, they took advantage of the characteristics of the three-dimensional bridge. The moment they went up and down, they blocked the opponent’s necessary paths and the opposite side can’t pass at all.”

In a bridge battle, melee combat had a limited range but a sniper had a very long range. Pei Feng and Gui Siyang stood on the bridge. Unless the sniper of the Singapore team killed them first, it would be difficult for them to reach the explosion point smoothly under the firepower suppression of the two people.

In the first round, the bandits were wiped out.

In the second round, the bandits were wiped out…

The players of the Singapore team were fighting but they were almost doubting life.

They had also encountered the map of Kunlun Bridge before. Why did it suddenly become so difficult today?

It was hard to move an inch!

In the first half, the Chinese team was the police and the Singapore team failed to break through many times. They directly played a wave of 5:0, which was even worse than the Japanese team that day. In the second half, the identities of the two sides were exchanged. The two snipers of the Singapore team covered up with aerial fire while Qin Xueyao pretended to steal the home. She directly climbed down the pier from the top layer. The players of the Singapore team saw him climbing down and naturally wouldn’t let her go. They hurriedly sent troops to surround the scout!

Unexpectedly, a notification popped up the moment they joined forces to kill Qin Xueyao.

[The bandits’ bomb has been placed.]

[It will explode after a 30 seconds countdown.]

All the members of Singapore: “??”

Who did it?

The audience had a god’s perspective and was very clear at this time. It was Hua Ran who secretly planted the bomb on the top layer of the bridge.

Qin Xueyao climbed down to deceive the enemy’s attention while China’s explosives package was actually in Hua Ran’s hands.

It was once again making a distraction in the east to strike in the west.

Hua Ran changed his usual unrestrained style of play. Once Xueyao led the opponents away, he successfully stole the house.

The Chinese team won.

The domestic audience was excited when seeing the score popping up on the big screen.

[Did we make it to the finals?]

[F*k, the Chinese team really made it to the finals? Then can’t we at least guarantee the runner-up?]

[Everyone, widen the situation. Perhaps we can win the championship?]

[The national team is really handsome!]

[I think it is a bit overwhelming to play against South Korea in the final. The runner-up is also good. This is the first time the national team has won a prize at an international competition!]

[In my lifetime, I can actually see the Gun King national team win a prize? Am I dreaming?]

The two commentators were so excited that their voices trembled. “Congratulations to the Chinese team for successfully reaching the finals of the Asian Championship!”

“In today’s BO5 knockout round, the Chinese team won the three maps of No 7 Subway Station, Cross Street and Kunlun Bridge. The Singapore team won the map of Crystal Cave. We defeated Singapore with a score of 3:1 and made history!”

“Yes. Regardless of victory or defeat in the next game, there will be a trophy won and we will really compete for the championship!”

“We’ve never won a trophy at a world competition!”

Listening to the choked up voices of the commentators, many e-sports players or players who followed e-sports felt sad.

In the past few years, it was really uncomfortable. The Chinese team had never won a trophy and were ridiculed, despised and insulted at world competitions. Even when they were called rookies to their faces, it was impossible to straighten up and scold back.

Now the Chinese team finally had a day when they could raise their eyes.

Jiang Shaoyu fulfilled his promise that he made to the league when he took over as coach of the national team.

He would lead the team to win prizes in international competitions and break the curse of zero trophies.

Regardless of whether they won or lost the finals, the first international trophy in the history of the Chinese team arrived!